July 2010‚ Volume 8‚ No.7 (Serial No.82) US-China Foreign Language‚ ISSN1539-8080‚ USA (De)constructing humour across languages and genres Sara Laviosa (English Language and Translation‚ University of Bari (Aldo Moro)‚ Bari 70125‚ Italy) Abstract: In Western societies‚ humour appears in many different communicative events‚ and is variedly expressed through words‚ pictures‚ sounds and body language. Humour is peculiar in that it is creative‚ compelling and culture-specific‚ and produces
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There’s an opinion which says that money brings happiness. Some people agree with it‚ others not. The discussion has lasted for a long time and still there are different points of view about it. Nowadays‚ we can divide our society into two groups of people: those whose life is centered around money and others who know that there are more important things than being rich. The latter are aware that wealthy people often aren’t able to have a real friend. People who surround the wealthy‚ are only
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pretty much thinks that it is one’s duty to speak the truth‚ although this moral principle is not taken unconditionally in the world today. This is a duty because it is every man’s right to know the truth and lying to anyone would be taking this right away‚ which mortals should not have the power to do. However‚ if a man throws this right away‚ through committing evil acts that are opposed to the good of mankind‚ he no longer has a right to the truth and he can be lied to. Also‚ if a one forces another
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Texting While Driving vs Drinking While Driving For decades‚ drunk driving has been at the forefront of debate. Stricter laws have been passed across the nation leading to a decrease in drunk driving accidents. However‚ a new driving threat is quickly taking its place. That threat is texting while driving and many say that it is actually more dangerous than drunk driving. Texting while driving a vehicle has now replaced drinking while driving as the leading cause of accidents and deaths of teenage
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Sleeping Freshman Never Lie is about the freshman Scott. He is starting high school at Zengar High. About twenty pages into the story he learns that his mom is pregnant. At that point he realizes that he should write a book of advice for his new sibling. Throughout the story he learns many things. Things from losing best friends to what to sign and not sign up for. Everything is narrated in first person so you are in Scott’s shoes the whole time. This helps because you learn about his opinions and
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to the definition of Art. In my opinion‚ Art is expression of human imagination or inward and what they feel about the world. Art plays a large part in making our lives infinitely. Could you imagine what will happen if the world without art ? Just look at desk where you are. Someone designed that. It is art. We are all surrounded by art. Art stimulates different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot with a whole gamut of emotion in between. Art gives us a way to be creative
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The Truth About Technology Technology has evolved immensely during the past few decades. It’s everywhere‚ and everyone uses it; technology is a necessity of life. It lights homes‚ makes transportation easy‚ makes research simple‚ and entertains. Although it has many benefits‚ technology also has negative side effects. Phones and TVs have become a major distraction from everyday things like students’ homework‚ adults’ work‚ and driving. There are hundreds of car accidents caused by texting and driving
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Finally we report phone recogni- tion experiments using the modified HMM topologies. 1. INTRODUCTION Modeling of pronunciation variations in conversational speech is essential for speech recognition as well as speech synthe- sis. The state-of-art speech synthesis systems are built using unit selection databases of carefully read speech recorded in a controlled environment. While these systems produce high quality natural speech they produce little effect of a conversa- tion and lack the
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How to Lie with Statistics Book Summary The book How to Lie with Statistics written by Darrell Huff shows you how statistics are used to mislead; sometimes unintentionally‚ other times on purpose. It gives the readers the knowledge necessary to intelligently question and understand the story behind the numbers. In other words‚ it shows the tricks the crooks use‚ so that honest men can use this knowledge for self defense. I think it’s particularly useful for a manager or an executive to read
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Does Money Bring Happiness? This often quoted phrase is so overused and jaded that even though we know that it is true‚ we tend to ignore it. We want to believe that there is an easy way out of being unhappy and believe me overcoming your emotions and teaching yourself to be happy can be more difficult that earning some bucks! All of us have at some point in time or another seen extremely rich‚ wealthy and famous people unhappier than what we would expect them to be‚ given the amount of material
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